Land Rover Discovery Luxury Hse Sd6 Auto: MOT pass rate and reliability data

The Land Rover Discovery Luxury Hse Sd6 Auto passes its MOT first time more often than the average UK car, by 12.3 percentage points. These figures come from the DVSA's full year of anonymised MOT results, covering 2,038 individual Land Rover Discovery Luxury Hse Sd6 Auto tests. Nothing here is an estimate or a survey.

The numbers

What this means if you are buying one

A 89% first-time pass rate means roughly 11 in every 100 Land Rover Discovery Luxury Hse Sd6 Autos presented for MOT fail on the first attempt. That is better than average, so a well-kept example is a reasonably safe used buy. The average Land Rover Discovery Luxury Hse Sd6 Auto tested had covered 45,227 miles and was built around 2020.

What this means at salvage auction

Pass rate is a proxy for what a car costs to keep on the road. On a Land Rover Discovery Luxury Hse Sd6 Auto bought as a repairable salvage, the mechanical side is less likely to spring surprises, so your repair estimate should hold up reasonably well.

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Most common MOT failures on a Land Rover Discovery Luxury Hse Sd6 Auto

1. Number plate does not conform to the specified requirements, 0.3% of tests (2.07x the national rate for this defect)
2. A tyre seriously damaged, 2.6% of tests (1.28x the national rate for this defect)
3. a brake lining or pad worn below 1.5mm, 1.3% of tests
4. Wiper blade missing or obviously not clearing the windscreen, 1.2% of tests
5. A tyre cords visible or damaged, 0.8% of tests
6. Tyre tread depth not in accordance with the requirements, 0.3% of tests
7. An SRS malfunction indicator lamp (MIL) indicates a system malfunction, 0.2% of tests
8. Brake disc or drum significantly and obviously worn, 0.2% of tests
9. Brake lining or pad worn down to wear indicator, 0.2% of tests (1.31x the national rate for this defect)
10. An obligatory rear fog lamp missing, or a front or rear fog lamp inoperative or in the case of a multiple light source more than 1/2 not functioning, 0.2% of tests

From 4,760 DVSA-tracked Land Rover Discovery Luxury Hse Sd6 Auto tests, 2024. DVSA testers marked 6.37% of these flagged Land Rover Discovery Luxury Hse Sd6 Auto defects as "dangerous", meaning the tester judged the car unsafe to drive away, against 4.97% nationally.

Land Rover Discovery Luxury Hse Sd6 Auto pass rate by model year

Pass rates fall steadily as cars age, so the model year matters as much as the model. First-time pass rate for each Land Rover Discovery Luxury Hse Sd6 Auto year:

• 2019 Land Rover Discovery Luxury Hse Sd6 Auto - 91% first-time pass, 720 tests
• 2020 Land Rover Discovery Luxury Hse Sd6 Auto - 88.7% first-time pass, 1,284 tests

Other Land Rover models

• Land Rover Discovery - 75.6%
• Land Rover Range Rover Evoque - 84%
• Land Rover Freelander - 70.6%
• Land Rover Range Rover Sport - 82%
• Land Rover Defender - 73%
• Land Rover Discovery Sport - 84.8%
• Land Rover Range Rover - 79.9%
• Land Rover Range Rover Velar - 86.7%

Models with a similar pass rate

• Alfa Romeo Stelvio - 89%
• Mitsubishi L200 Barbarian X Di-D Auto - 89%
• Mercedes-Benz Cla 220 Amg Line Premium + D A - 89%
• SEAT Leon Fr Phev S-A - 89%
• BMW M440i Xdrive Mhev Auto - 89%
• Skoda Octavia Se L Tsi Iv S-A - 89%

If this car is a salvage or write-off

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• Cat S vs Cat N: the real differences

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